Local News

With one tornado already seen in the district this year, West Central Alberta residents shouldn't be surprised to see more of the potentially very dangerous twisters this summer, according to David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Cana

Members of the Olds-based Wild Horses of Alberta Society (WHOAS) will be taking part in an upcoming two-day workshop in Montana regarding the possible contraceptive vaccination of free-roaming horses in the Sundre area, say officials.

Mountain View County council has been given an update on the wastewater pipeline project now underway between Olds and Red Deer.

A 55-year-old Kamloops, B.C., man was issued a careless driving ticket after he allegedly caused a four-vehicle crash on Highway 2 south of Bowden on June 30.

A 56-year-old man was transported by STARS air ambulance to the Calgary Foothills Hospital with back and other non-life threatening injuries following a quad rollover 80 kilometres west of Sundre on Thursday afternoon.

Chinook's Edge School Division is giving its high school students a head start on their careers with three new partnerships that will provide them with work experience. “It's always a struggle to say, what do you want to be when you grow up.

Mountain View County councillors have given first reading to a bylaw that would amend the land use bylaw to create a separate aggregate extraction and processing district.

Pork producers in the region need to be wary of a new virus that has recently been gaining a foothold in Eastern Canada, and which has already taken hold in the U.S., say officials. Dr.

The Alberta government and five provincial utility companies have once again launched a summer campaign to reduce the number of power line related accidents and injuries.

The clues were admittedly “scrappy” but a paleontologist says there's evidence dinosaurs walked the foothills near Sundre and Bottrell as early as 70 million years ago.